Wireless Design & Development articles from January 2006

Wireless Design & Development archives from January 2006

Why can't we all get connected?(UP FRONT)
January 1, 2006... Hello everyone. It's Andrea, WD&D's managing editor and Ern's editorial regulator (at least that's what he calls me). After a recent conversation Ern and I had about WiMAX and other contenders in the wireless communications arena, he quickly...

Board-to-board connector.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... AVX Corporation has developed a low-profile, board-to-board connector designed for miniature and handheld portable equipment applications. Designated the 5805 series, the connector has a 0.4 mm pitch and a 1.0 mm stacking height. A double-sided...

PIN diodes.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... M/A-COM announces three additions to its existing line of packageless surmount PIN diodes. The MA4SPS421, MA4SPS422 series devices and MA4PD-042005 series diodes provide good power performance for future platform mobile radio and military...

Quad-band CMOS transceiver.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... Quorum Systems introduces the QS1000, a single-chip CMOS quadband RF transceiver offering GSM/GPRS and EDGE capability. Featuring an ultra low-power down-converter, the QS1000 delivers receive current of 53 mA at -110 dBm sensitivity. The...

P-channel MOSFETs.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... Provided in space-saving SOT23 and SOT223 packages, the 200 V rated P-channel MOSFETs from Zetex can reduce the size of active clamp designs previously reliant on DPAK and SO8 packages. Two miniature devices are initially offered: the...

SiGe front-end IC.(WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... Atmel[R] announces the ATR0981, a Silicon Germanium (SiGe) based front-end IC. The use of SiGe technology and the device's operating frequency range (300 to 500 MHz) make possible a broad range of applications, from handheld family radios...

Delta-sigma ADC.(WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... Linear Technology introduces the LTC2442, a multiplexed 24-bit No Latency Delta Sigma[TM] ADC with an integrated high performance amplifier. The LTC2442 achieves 1 ppm linearity with the amplifier configured as a unity gain buffer. The ADC...

Fully-differential amplifiers.(WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... TI announces additions to its family of low noise, low distortion fully-differential amplifiers that drive high-speed ADCs. Providing more flexibility to meet the needs of high-speed data acquisitions systems, the family allows designers to...

GaAs MMIC amplifier.(WHAT'S HOT)
January 1, 2006... Mimix Broadband, Inc. announces a GaAs MMIC two-stage high power amplifier that integrates an on-chip temperature-compensated output power detector. Using 0.15[micro] gate length GaAs pHEMT device model technology, this device covers the 30 to...

Avago Technologies begins operations as world's largest privately-held independent semiconductor company.(NEWS / BUSINESS / CONTRACTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Avago Technologies announces that it has started operations as the world's largest privately held independent semiconductor company. Avago was created as a result of the acquisition of Agilent Technologies' Semiconductor Products Group by...

Ansoft second quarter earnings double.(NEWS / BUSINESS / CONTRACTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Ansoft Corporation announces financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2006, ended October 31, 2005. Revenue for the second quarter totaled $18 million, an increase of 13% compared to $15.9 million reported in the previous fiscal...

SpaceVest Capitol invests in Privaris.(NEWS / BUSINESS / CONTRACTS)
January 1, 2006... SpaceVest Capital announces a $2.5 million investment in Privaris, Inc. Privaris will use the A round to expand marketing and sales activities, as well as advance the development of its high security technology. Harbert Venture Partners led the...

WiSpry and Jazz partner to create RF MEMS.(Jazz Semiconductor)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... WiSpry, Inc. and Jazz Semiconductor announce that they have partnered to create innovative RF-MEMS offerings using Jazz's leading-edge RF-CMOS processes. The program has demonstrated the feasibility of commercially manufacturing WiSpry's...

ACS Dataline gains advantage in wireless network market.(NEWS / BUSINESS / CONTRACTS)
January 1, 2006... Wireless Valley[R] Communications, Inc. announces that ACS Dataline has adopted its LANPlanner[R] software as a core component in its wireless network offering. ACS offers a wide range of enterprise turnkey solutions in the areas of voice,...

SK Telecom signs trial agreement with TechnoConcepts.(NEWS / BUSINESS / CONTRACTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... TechnoConcepts, Inc. announces that it has signed a trial agreement with SK Telecom, Ltd. Under the trial agreement, SK Telecom will incorporate TechnoConcepts' True Software Radio[TM] (TSR[TM]) receiver solution into their communications...

Andrew to acquire Skyware Radio Systems.(NEWS / BUSINESS / CONTRACTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Andrew Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Skyware Radio Systems GmbH of Krefeld, Germany, a producer of state-of-the-art electronic products for broadband satellite communications networks. Under terms of the agreement,...

Zilog ZLR32300 Crimzon[TM] series IR mictrocontrollers.(Advertisement)
January 1, 2006... 237 bytes of RAM and up to 32Kb of ROM; 3 standby modes include stop-2[micro]A, halt- .8[micro]A, and low voltage; 6 priority interrupts; high and low voltage detection with flag; programmable watch-dog/power-on reset circuits; mask selectable...

Lantronix WiPort[TM wireless embedded device server.
January 1, 2006... Serial to 802.11 b wireless conversion; supports WLAN or Ethernet connectivity; 11 general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins; dual serial ports, 128-bit WEP and WPA wireless security with PSK, TKIP; upgradeable WiPort firmware via the network or...

Aerocomm AC4790 wireless transceiver module.(Advertisement)
January 1, 2006... True peer-to-peer protocol; API commands to control packet routing; software controlled sensitivity and remote radio discovery; variable output power 5mW to 1000mW; 1.65" to 1.9" dimensions; uses 900MHz FHSS technology requiring no additional...

Rabbit semiconductor Bluetooth[R] application kit.(Advertisement)
January 1, 2006... Includes a RCM3100, EmbeddedBlue ebS06 AHC IN Bluetooth radio module and prototyping board; plugs directly into supported RCMs and SBCs; 2.4 GHz FHSS; low current consumption; internal surface-mount antenna; simple serial UART communications...

Radiotronix WI.232DTS wireless transceiver module.
January 1, 2006... Combines a state-of-the art low power wireless transceiver with a powerful multipoint-to-multipoint protocol controller to form a transparent wireless communication solution capable of replacing wires in any RS-23214221485 application in a tiny...

Location-based systems: a network equity.(Wireless networking equipment and trends)
January 1, 2006... There is no doubt that the network is evolving. Triggered by convergence, intelligence moving inside the network and a proliferation in the number and type of networked devices, networks have grown to become an even more essential element of an...

Flexible software-defined test instruments: today's rapidly changing manufacturing environments demand flexibility in all aspects of design. The next generation of software-defined test instruments are a key element in cost control, time to market, design flexibility and standards evolution.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2006... There are many challenges in addressing instrumentation needs for emerging communications signal formats. Time-to-market pressure drives R&D development to begin before the wireless standards have been finalized. This, in turn, drives demand...

Radio transceivers using an I/Q receiver interface: Part II: this concludes the examination of demodulator technology and presents the rest of the technical discussion.(FEATURED TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2006... The group delay variation caused by analog filters can be avoided by using a digital filter. The FIR filter implemented has a constant group delay resulting in a linear phase response, as shown in Figure 11. When the AIS received data is passed...

Optimization of sub-100 nm [GAMMA]-gate Si-MOSFETs for RF applications: the [GAMMA]-gate MOSFET offers the advantage of reduced gate resistance, a critical parameter in high frequency circuits. Identifying the optimum [GAMMA]-gate extension length from the gate and drain resistance point of view, is an essential design parameter in today's aggressively scaled CMOS.
January 1, 2006... By the end of the twentieth century, the world had seen an explosion in the breadth and depth of applications and devices within the wireless industry. With the increasing popularity of wireless communication systems like cordless phones,...

Multi-band transceiver.(TECHNOLOGY AWARD)
January 1, 2006... Sequoia Communications announces SEQ-5400, a single-chip, multi mode WEDGE (WCDMA, HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS, GSM) RF transceiver based on Sequoia Communications' FullSpectra[TM] polar architecture. This transceiver promises to lower the cost and...